Garza Hotel Chiclayo

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... of the restaurant to point to the tasty looking noodle option.<br><br>The food came along with our two beers and three glasses, and the food was rightfully recommended. I suggested that perhaps the third glass was for offerings to the beer god as there are some strange rituals around here and witchcraft market in Chiclayo, so we poured a small amount into the extra glass for good luck.<br><br>The beers here come ...

... into the small town of Morrope and stopped there for lunch. We have just about fixed all of the electical equipment damaged in the rain in Ecuador. <br><br>We rode to Chilayo and went to a hostel/campground recommended by the Lonely Planet Guide, only to be disappointed by its lack of electricity and lack of being really ready for guests. I joked to Annette that the place should be filmed for an anti-marijuana ...

... fuel close by but don't want us both to run out 5km short of a filling station.<br>I sit in the dessert in the half sun drinking water and eating nutty bars watching the sand blow in a thin film across the road.<br>35 minutes later G turns up with fuel, it was 25km to the filling station we would have made it but we did not know for sure.<br>Topped up with fuel we head on to Chicalayo and stop in the square to check the map for hostels. A ...

... s when a local archeologist noticed the black market was getting filled with artifacts, and he realized there was an incredible burial site was getting ransacked. After some scuffles with grave-robbers, or huaqueros, the archaeologist and the police managed to protect and restrict the site. <br> We never actually made it to the site as that was further out of town, (we heard it would be closed that day) but ...

... Moche Tours, highly recommended) of a couple museums, including the pyramid shaped Sipan Museum which is modern and high quality, and an excavation site where numerous artifacts were dug up, and workers are presently uncovering a massive pyramid. The guide (Orlando) and other people in the group made it a fun day. We stopped for lunch and I had the local specialty, Pato con Arroz (duck with rice) in the Chiclayo style... very tasty.<br>

... French guy named Valentin to Transportes Chiclayo, which would charge me 13 soles (about 4 USD) for the 3 hour bus ride to Chiclayo. Unfortunately.... about literally 20 mins from Chiclayo, we came upon a roadblock on the highway by the farmers who were on strike. *******s. After getting a small combi (minibus) to take us to Chiclayo, but later on finding out that the other alternative road was also ...

So today was my third day surfing, and I kiiinda was able to stand on the board for a half a second or two, haha... lots of fun.. And before that, I went to Huaca Rajada in the morning, in Sipan. It's the on-site museum and digging sites where they found ...

Went on a guided tour and visited "The Lord of Sipan", a Mochican chief in 300 AD. It is a relatively recent archaeological site discovered in the 1980s. Interesting culture that left behind much gold, silver and copper artifacts ...

... at why. There is little if no water, they can´t grow crops, there´s is no vegetation to keep animals and yet, somehow these towns exist. Later there is nothing but desert, huge sand dunes tumbling over each other, river beds completely dried out, sand tornadoes twirling about across the horizon.The road straight for almost 200 kilometers. The wind blowing very strong from ...